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Five Star Final

1931, Movie, NR, 89 mins

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This is an offbeat but fascinating film which pillories the transgressions of the muckraking tabloids so popular in the 1920s. Apfel is the uncaring, circulation-lusting publisher of the New York Gazette, a notorious scandal sheet, who hires Robinson, a hardworking, slightly scrupulous editor, telling him to dust off a 20-year-old murder case by infiltrating the family involved and obtaining background information. To accomplish this unsavory job, Robinson reluctantly hires ... read more leave a comment
Year: 1931
Rated NR

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Cast
Edward G. Robinson: Randall
Marian Marsh: Jenny Townsend
H.B. Warner: Michael Townsend
Anthony Bushell: Phillip Weeks
George E. Stone: Ziggie Feinstein
Frances Starr: Nancy Voorhees Townsend

 

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